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In January 2007 Bill Gates came to the
Library for the launch of Microsoft’s new
Vista software. The launch was symbolised
to the world’s press when he joined our Chief Executive onstage to signal the
virtual reunification of his Leonardo
notebook, Codex Leicester, with our own, Codex Arundel, as Turning the Pages™ digital facsimiles.

This was the first opportunity for people
to view these great manuscripts of
Renaissance science together since they
left Leonardo’s workshop. The result was a
surge of interest on our website, videos on
YouTube and comments such as ‘Turning
the Pages is the reason why every
household should have a computer!’